How does Microsoft’s compare to M*crosoft’s?

I’m all for the most humane and ethical means of getting meat and the day I can get a steak that didn’t require a cow to die but is indistinguishable from the real thing I will absolutely switch over, but until then I’m going to enjoy delicious, delicious duck and not feel bad about. Wouldn’t eat a dog even in an apocalypse though.

I always fall back on the concept of graphing how delicious the animal is vs how much of an asshole it is. Ducks? Absolutely delicious and raging assholes; they are the perfect meal. Dogs? Too sweet to ever try and on the negative side of the asshole graph. Cats? Rather asshole but not sure how they taste…

Thanks, I saw it come across my FB feed and knew what had to be done.

Cool, but steak is my favorite animal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm3JodBR-vs

I have no idea what you’re arguing over, all I said was that a crosstrek isn’t the car that comes to mind when you say “putting rally parts on my subaru” to anyone who actually knows what rally is. It’s like saying “I got drag slicks for my Pontiac” and having someone ask “aw nice, is it an aztek?” The WRX is literally named after and intended to be a consumer version of a WRC car, a crosstrek is meant for someone that thinks they might drive into a field to go to a concert once in the whole 6 years of owning it.

No, there are plenty of other rally vehicles, but a crosstrek isn’t one. You also realize that WRX stands for World Rally eXperimental. I also am not sure you know what rally racing is, I feel like you just think it’s a fun word for “off-road” but there are also tarmac stages where you don’t need ground clearance. The WRX is literally a road version of a rally car, the crosstrek is a CUV with ground clearance, that is literally just the point I was making. Either way rally doesn’t mean off-road, it is a specific type of racing that sometimes goes off-road, but is actually on roads the vast majority of the time, just not always paved.

Yeah, it didn’t make sense. “To do rally but it’s not a rally vehicle” to which I was confirming that rally is a specific thing and a crosstrek isn’t suited for it.

Rally is far more than just being able to go offroad. A crosstrek is fine at going offroad, but it is far from ideal for anything rally.

Whatever suits you, she’s the girl of my dreams and we’ve been married more than 10 years now.

Why would a crosstrek need a rally suspension? It’s a WRX.

I found mine at a women’s college in Massachusetts. We’re putting a lifted rally suspension on her Subaru today.

That really looks like an AR-15 extractor.

Yeah, I’m looking at some of the options. I like this speaker set so an option with an analogue jack and USB port for power seems the way to go. Whether I go for a Pi or just a simple Arduino board doesn’t matter to me. I think I’m going to be messing with code anyway to get the switch behavior I want since most existing MP3 options seem to be standard play/next/prev controlled with multiple momentary buttons vs a toggle. Even just toggle on to start the song each time will need a bit of customizing and at that point I might as well make it a bit more fancy with off being pause and then a timer for back on to be unpause if it’s a short period or play from the beginning if it’s been sitting for a few minutes.

It’s still a first dive into any of this for me, Pi or Arduino but with a bit of help pointing in the right direction none of it seems that hard. Just trying to figure out which hardware to go with and once I have it playing with it until I get what I want.

Yeah, I would rather do a Pi or Arduino and some coding. I was already planning on 3d printing an enclosure.

That looks perfect. Will I need a different board to wire the switch to and manage everything or will that basically be the full hardware other than the speaker and SD card?

Space: I was going to 3d print a box for it. The switch is 3x3” so I was thinking of approximately a 3x3x3 cube but slightly angling the panel back a bit to truncate the front corner would look nice. I have leeway to adjust the enclosure as needed since I’m developing and printing it myself. A single 2-3” diameter speaker would fit and I can adjust the enclosure around it and convert the mp3 to mono as needed.

Power: Power is flexible to whatever solution seems best. I envisioned it as a desk ornament so first thought was a USB jack on the back. Not 100% tied to that but figured it seemed the easiest. My goal was to have the switch play the music so long as the device has power available.

Budget: I was envisioning $50 or so for components but can be flexible within reason. The controller needs to run a few dozen lines of code and have enough memory for a single mp3 so I can’t imagine it will be that expensive.

Time: Not stuck on any specific timeline. The friend is visiting with the kid in 2 weeks which would seem doable if I don’t get distracted. If not his birthday is in April and even then I can send it whenever it’s done or I see them next. She’s going through a divorce with the pilot father so a positive gift tied to the father would be really nice for him to have, there’s a whole backstory there that isn’t worth getting into. In short, 2.5 weeks would be great but “when it’s done” is acceptable.

They accidentally a hemisphere.

I was a bit late on this booster because they were late getting it on base and then shifted all supplies overseas which made me go to local pharmacies which is a pain for active duty but I finally managed. I feel like I was higher risk at the beginning than now though, either way what I’ve been doing seems to have worked. Meanwhile my biochemist wife who works in pharma development is only a bit butthurt that she caught it before me despite absolutely being the subject matter expert and only going interacting with peers at work during the height of it.